I beg to differ with it being an election year, I beleive this "little" story has become better known because as the election draws nearer, more people start paying attention to such events.
With this latest move of Obama's, now the mainstream liberal media MIGHT have to give the story more air time as well, because now, IT IS a story.
And the more these stories are hit on news organization websites, the more they'll know there's interest in it, and if it means ratings, even MSNBC just might sell their messiah down the river (rather than go down WITH him)
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, we are the III%, CIP2, and some other catchphrase meant to aggravate progreSSives who are hell bent on taking rights away...